Marc Elias using ‘fringe’ theories to sow 2024 chaos: Election expert

Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias is waging a full-on assault on election laws by pushing “fringe legal theories” in dozens of key states ahead of the 2024 election, according to an election law expert.

Elias recently boasted that his firm, Elias Law Group, is “now litigating 55 voting and election cases in 21 states” in the middle of an election year that will feature a contest between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Elias’s announcement also comes nearly two months after his firm won a challenge to Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn legislative maps, and he is litigating the election battleground state’s congressional maps in a separate suit.

In addition to Elias’s litigation against GOP-drawn maps, he secured one of his most “transparently partisan” successes at the Wisconsin Supreme Court this week after its Democratic majority agreed to reconsider the court’s 2022 holding in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, which disallowed the use of ballot drop boxes in the state, according to Honest Elections Project Director Jason Snead.

“I don’t think that there is any election integrity law that is considered safe in the Wisconsin Supreme Court at this point,” said Snead, referencing the 2023 election of Justice Janet Protasiewicz, a left-wing jurist who flipped the previous Republican majority on the state’s high court.